Except on the Index pages, where diacritics are not used to make page searching easier, most of the Pāli spellings have now been corrected. The names of suttas have been changed to match the CSCD Tipiṭaka to make finding them easier, and footnotes have been added to some of the longer articles to reduce the clutter.

There indexes to the Jātka, Dīgha Nikyāya, Majjhima Nikāya, and Sutta Nipāta.

Its now at a stage where I am happy to leave it has it is, but I welcome any feedback, particularly reports of any broken links.

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Thanks Bhante, That's a very valuable resource, which I use regularly. It's great to be able to look up someone and get all the suttas that he/she appears in. I can then take the page reference and plug it into http://suttacentral.net/ and often get straight to an on-line version. Or at least have an easy reference to a real book...

It's a list of the names that appear in the Canon, with summaries of their lives, where their stories may be found in Vinaya, Sutta, and Commentary, which suttas were spoken to them, and so on. A very helpful reference for understanding the Canon.

I have updated a number of the longer articles with footnotes, and more cross-references to other articles. If you don't know how to find references in the translations, an explanation and illustration is given after the footnotes.

The average reader doesn't need to see these references at all while reading the article, but the references are useful for those who do want to read a quote in its full context.

This is a convenient place to report broken links or glaring errors. Please provide a link to the page where you found the error.

I have now almost completed a major update of the Dictionary of Pali Proper Names site.

I transferred the entire site from NetObjects Fusion to Serif WebPlus X8, which now supports font embedding. This should mean that Pāḷi diacritics can be read, even by those who don't have a suitable font installed. Other major changes include:

Changing names of suttas to match the names given in the CSCD Tipiṭaka to make it easier to find references in the Pāḷi text.

Updating the English in some places to improve the translation. Wherever I have made a significant change to the Malalsekera edition, the font colour is changed from Black to Dark Blue.

Inserted numerous suttas (mostly from the Saṃyuttanikāya) that are missing from the original

Added many more cross-reference links including links to footnotes, and backlinks from the footnotes to the text

More updates will follow — I am currently inserting missing suttas beginning with the letter N, which means the process is half done.

Be warned that the translations are no more than a brief synopsis in most cases. If you want to read the translations in full, other sites like Sutta Central or Access to Insight are more suitable. This is a useful reference for finding your way around the Pali Texts.

There's also quite a lot of Sri Lankan history from the Mahāvaṃsa, Cūlavaṃsa, and Rasavahini, which may be of limited interest to students of Buddhism.

I have made some minor updates since I last posted, but nothing major.

I am posting here again because my free web-hosting is currently unavailable.

If you want to access the Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, just go to my Main Website Mirror and follow the link in the navigation bar to the DPPN.

As always, please let me know if you spot any typos or broken links. There are 3,966 pages on this site, so there are sure to be some errors. If you tell me about them, it is usually a simple task to fix them.

See the Home Page of my site for explanation of the editing that I have done. Sutta names are more inline with the CSCD Tipitaka, which is available online. Malalasekara's original was based on the Sinhala Pali text, so some names of suttas are different. My edition also has more cross-links.